This paper investigates empirically the long-run relationship and short-run dynamic linkages between financial development and economic growth in Sudan during the period 1970- 2011. The study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to co-integration. The analys...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3387
Aims: The aim of this article is to come to the conclusion whether Porter’s five forces model can be adjusted for the purpose of assessing competitive environment of the tourist destination, in order to attract Tourism Foreign Direct Investments (TFDI), and use it as such as an a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4180
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the three northern regions of Ghana continue to find ways of meeting the aspirations of the poor. One way they try to achieve this goal is by adopting technological innovations. This paper explored technological innovations in a sample of 41 MF...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4951
The challenges that originate from changes in the global trade regime and the relative competitive environment in the global markets are reasons for deep concern for Bangladesh. Because of quota system abolition many of the less efficient suppliers will lose quota rents and marke...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4321
Technology transfer (TT) and foreign direct investment (FDI) have been identified as an important conduit in the promotion of economic development. But many developing nations fear the opening up of their markets to competition and foreign investment. This paper empirically studi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3631
This paper investigates the relationship between electricity consumption and real GDP growth in Nigeria during a period of thirty six years (1970-2005). The paper adopts Vector Auto Regressive (VAR) and Error Correction Model (ECM) to test the causality between real GDP and elect...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4423
Aims: This paper investigates the application of principal component analysis in the selection of financial ratios that are significant and representative for two industry sectors in Malaysia. Companies in different industries, even in the same country, have different operational...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4125
This study examines college students and their self-evaluation of career opportunities in the job market. We also investigate the antecedents of academic achievement and employment perceptions. Using a structural equation modeling framework, we found that self-efficacy, social su...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4041
Aims: Businesses are increasingly affected by the economic, social, legal, technological and political factors. In this paper, we term this the business infrastructure of a country. We analyze how the business infrastructure predicts how easy it will be to do business in a count...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3671
Aims: Purpose of the study was to check the provision of Total Quality Management practices in textile industry of Pakistan. For this purpose we have evaluated Total Quality Management practices in textile industry. The focal intention behind this study was to get first hand info...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3161